Crumbs from His Table - Control of Mind, #2

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D: When I spent an hour or two on the hill yonder,

I sometimes found even better peace than here,

which suggests that a solitary place is after all more

conducive to mind-control.

 

 

Bhagavan:

True, but if you had stayed there for an hour longer,

you would have found that place too not giving you

the calm of which you speak. Control the mind

and even Hell will be Heaven to you. All other

talk of solitude, living in a forest etc., is mere prattle.*

D: If solitude and abandonment of home were not required,

where then was the necessity for Sri Bhagavan to come

here in his seventeenth year?

 

B: If the same force that took this ( meaning himself ) here,

should take you also out of your home by all means let it,

but there is no use of your deserting your home by an

effort of your own.

Your duty lies in practice, continuous practice of Self-enquiry.

* Men are continually seeking retreats for themselves, in the

country or by the sea, or among the hills. And thou thyself

art wont to yearn after the like - yet all this is the sheerest

folly, for it is open to thee every hour to retire into thyself.

___ Marcus Aurellius

 

 

~~~ CRUMBS FROM HIS TABLE

By Ramanananda Swarnagiri

Fourth Edition, 1969

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